I wish you all the happiness and success fellow reader! :')
I think what I love about how this story resolved (in addition to it being an open, still in progress ending) is that they both really at the core step up for themselves. They are there for each other, yes, and work through their own cages of loneliness with each other, but they also work as mirrors for each other. They both show this disdain for each other that's also self-inflicted, the lack of empathy they got from others they also denied themselves, then had to wrestle with caring for someone and not wanting to perpetuate that pattern. And the grief that comes with breaking that pattern is so profound. I appreciate how the love in this story is a struggle. I don't say all this to at all deny how you feel or your conclusion about needing a wooyeon... but I also think that scene where joowon's reflection is the one that gets him out the door is the true message of the story. And then because of that, they are able to truly love each other, not trapped anymore. And they are able to show up for each other when it gets hard again, because they have broken through, not trapped in their own cages anymore in the same way.
as someone who’s been agoraphobic for a decade this really resonates so much with me. the author did an incredible job of writing all of the characters. i’ve never related to a character the way i do to junwoo.
i honestly have so much to say about this that i don’t even know where to start. being agoraphobic myself the stuff with hanbit hurt so badly and i feel terrible for junwoo, but at the same time it’s really eye opening.
i’m at a point in my agoraphobia where i really have basically given up on ever trying to overcome it, this is just my life now. and while i want to say everyone gets a happy ending, and junwoo was able to pull himself out of it. i do wonder if he would have ever been able to do so if he hadn’t met wooyeon. or if he ever would’ve been able to find the courage or motivation in himself.
at times where junwoo genuinely did not have an exact explanation as to why he was still in the house but it was just how things were, really stuck with me. i cried so much. i laughed. i just loved this story so much and it really changed me and has easily become one of my favorites.
i loved the part where wooyeon said “what would you do without me?” and junwoo said “everything” but i do feel like he was only even able to get there thanks to wooyeon (and vice versa kind of) and i love that the story didn’t make it feel like a bad thing. but in reality a lot of us will never find the courage or motivation to overcome this, and won’t ever have our own wooyeon, i envy both of them so much that they were able to find each other and help heal one another. wooyeons story had me sobbing i love him so much
if there’s any other bl enjoyers with agoraphobia that want to be friends please feel free to reach out to me!! i’d love friends that enjoy the same stuff and understand how it feels <3